Story+2008-06-21+Hamburg,+Germany

“Hello, Hamburg (crowd cheers) wie geht’s? (crowd cheers) Deutschland-Portugal drei zu zwei – unglaublich! (crowd cheers)…” (* How are you?...Germany-Portugal three to two – unbelievable!”) [Germany had beat Portugal 3-to-2 in the European football Championships.]
 * 21.06.08 Hamburg, Germany, intro to “Out in the Street”**

“Can you feel the spirit? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit now? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit now? (crowd cheers) I want you to wave your hands in the air, I want you to wave them around (?) I want to feel the spirit moving in this room, I want to feel the spirit moving in this room tonight (?) I want you to wave your hands around…”
 * 21.06.08 Hamburg, Germany, intro to “Spirit in the Night”**

“Hello, Hamburg (crowd cheers)(?)…yes, it’s Nils’ birthday…(crowd cheers)…oh, we could try, we haven’t done this in a long, long time …alright, we’ll take this…no, I don’t know…we don’t know that one, no, we don’t know that one (chuckles)…swing that one up, maybe …oh, we can’t do all these…“Goin’ Down,” “Sherry Darling”… (laughs)…oh yes, you have made your requests, we will see (chuckles)…I tell you what, Steve, let’s…let’s go here…ok…for this gentleman right there – where are you? (crowd cheers) you, my friend, you, my compadre (crowd cheers)…”
 * 21.06.08 Hamburg, Germany, intro to “Something in the Night”**

“Very obscure, very obscure, never played, we’ll start with…”Sing, Stevie, sing” (chuckles) are you ready, Brother?...(?)…this is one of Steve’s all-time favorite numbers so I don’t know…this may be the closest we ever came to pure punk music (chuckles)…that’s right, here in Hamburg we will play (crowd cheers)…”
 * 21.06.08 Hamburg, Germany, intro to “Held Up Without a Gun”**

“Hello, Hamburg! (crowd cheers) wie geht’s? (crowd cheers) alright …here’s a song called “Livin’ in the future”…but it’s about what’s happening now…now, back home where we come from, along with all the things that we’re proud of, we’ve had to add to the American picture things like rendition and illegal wiretapping, rolling-back of fundamental civil liberties…these are all things that when I was a little boy, my parents always told me only happen someplace else …so this is a song about watching people sleep through changes that should not have, that should not have been allowed…help me tell the story, Max…”
 * 21.06.08 Hamburg, Germany, intro to “Livin’ in the Future”**

“Are you ready for a house party? (crowd cheers) are you ready for a house party? (crowd cheers) because the music has got to be righteous when you need it…are you ready for a soul music? (crowd cheers) are you ready for a little soul music? (crowd cheers)…[the “are you ready?”-call-and-response-routine] Max!…come on…come on, Steve…Big Man, are you ready?...bring it down one more time… one, two, three…oh yes…here we go…”
 * 21.06.08 Hamburg, Germany, intro to “Mary’s Place”**

“Oh yeah…you, sweetheart, you! (crowd cheers) alright, a request from (?)(chuckles) is this your sign?...(chuckles) are you ready, boys?...are you ready, Big Man?...”
 * 21.06.08 Hamburg, Germany, intro to “Sherry Darling”**

“We have some newly weds out there tonight…just married, where are you?...you don’t know how true this word is gonna be right here, that word…yes, you will…play it, Roy (Roy starts the piano intro) do we have any lovers out there tonight? (crowd cheers) I need to see all the lovers out there…oh, oh, alright (chuckles) here it comes…come on, boys, one, two, three…”
 * 21.06.08 Hamburg, Germany, intro to “I’ll Work for Your Love”**

“This is going to be hard work…and she’s been to many, many shows we’ve played on this tour so where’s, where’s…I know, ok, she’s been to a whole lot of shows, I’ve seen her in the front row… where you, where you from?...oh, this is her hometown, home, home nation (chuckles)(crowd cheers) ok, the band doesn’t know it any more, it’s, it’s so old we forgot it but I’ll play it for you…know it, anybody?...alright, he knows it? alright…what key, what key, what key are we in?...the band is getting a lot of courage up here this evening…I’ll just do the first verse…then I’ll count, then I’ll count it, alright? one verse…”
 * 21.06.08 Hamburg, Germany, intro to “Hungry Heart”**

“Oh, we’re bringing them all out tonight (crowd cheers)…(some fiddling about with instruments)…(chuckles) we gotta practise… play it, Roy…”
 * 21.06.08 Hamburg, Germany, intro to “Incident on 57th Street”**

“Woo! (crowd cheers) I’ll do a verse, everybody kicks in…”
 * 21.06.08 Hamburg, Germany, intro to “Seven Nights to Rock”**

“Danke, Hamburg! (crowd cheers) thank you for coming out to our show tonight (crowd cheers) woo!...bring it (?)… (…) Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) Little Steven (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) the Mighty, the Mighty, the Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) and the biggest man you’ve ever seen: Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) Hamburg! (crowd cheers) Deutschland! (crowd cheers) Hamburg! (crowd cheers) Deutschland! (crowd cheers) Deutschland! (crowd cheers) Deutschland! (crowd cheers) you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, earth-shocking, booty-shaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)…”
 * 21.06.08 Hamburg, Germany, intro to “American Land”**

//Compiled by Johanna Pirttijärvi//